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Cath Criscenti

Artform:
Wheel thrown, stoneware glazed vessels and jewellery.
Year:
2021-22
Location:
UCLAN Preston, Lancashire
Email:
cathcriscenti@gmail.com
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Project summary:

I have always loved the British weather, even when it rains. One of my main loves about the British weather is the changing of seasons. I love the variety that each season brings. Places can look completely different depending upon the time of year. In winter the trees are bare, the grass is low and dull, and the sky can be grey. Then in spring the trees come to life. Buds start growing, blossoms start blooming, snowdrops appear, the grass gets longer and days get warmer and longer. The warmer days come as a welcome relief from the cold, bitter, dark short days that can be winter. Then spring turns to summer with long hot days, bright early mornings and long sunny nights. The flowers have all bloomed and dazzle us with their rainbow colours. Then slowly the days get shorter and the flowers fade and fall. The leaves change giving a dramatic show of rusts and reds. The days get cooler, again as a welcome relief from the heat, and coats and jackets are recovered from the backs of wardrobes. The leaves then fall leaving a crispy crunch as you walk on them and before you realise, its dark by 5pm and winter is upon us once more. Ice sparkles and snow glistens and everything becomes still again.

My work embodies the changing of the seasons through the format of colour. I make elegant simplistic conical shaped forms, contemporary, yet time less pieces. I make varying sizes that are all unmistakably from the same family. It is through the application of glazes that these forms are divided to represent the four different seasons. I work to produce individual pieces but also by grouping of pots. My work is all hand thrown on the potter's wheel and I have developed and mixed my own range of seasonal coloured glazes.

I have always loved the British weather, even when it rains. One of my main loves about the British weather is the changing of seasons. I love the variety that each season brings. Places can look completely different depending upon the time of year. In winter the trees are bare, the grass is low and dull, and the sky can be grey. Then in spring the trees come to life. Buds start growing, blossoms start blooming, snowdrops appear, the grass gets longer and days get warmer and longer. The warmer days come as a welcome relief from the cold, bitter, dark short days that can be winter. Then spring turns to summer with long hot days, bright early mornings and long sunny nights. The flowers have all bloomed and dazzle us with their rainbow colours. Then slowly the days get shorter and the flowers fade and fall. The leaves change giving a dramatic show of rusts and reds. The days get cooler, again as a welcome relief from the heat, and coats and jackets are recovered from the backs of wardrobes. The leaves then fall leaving a crispy crunch as you walk on them and before you realise, its dark by 5pm and winter is upon us once more. Ice sparkles and snow glistens and everything becomes still again.

My work embodies the changing of the seasons through the format of colour. I make elegant simplistic conical shaped forms, contemporary, yet time less pieces. I make varying sizes that are all unmistakably from the same family. It is through the application of glazes that these forms are divided to represent the four different seasons. I work to produce individual pieces but also by grouping of pots. My work is all hand thrown on the potter's wheel and I have developed and mixed my own range of seasonal coloured glazes.

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